Super Island Tycoon-Chapter 637 - 636: Castle in the Air

Every achievement produced by the physics department thereafter had the contribution of him as their director.

So now Director Yan appeared even more diligent, incredibly enthusiastic towards Jiang Cheng, almost as if he wanted to elevate him to a pedestal.

Currently, he was eager for Jiang Cheng to guide their physics department more, hoping to leverage more political chips for himself.

Jiang Cheng had always noticed Director Yan's attitude, and he clearly understood the schemes Director Yan had in mind.

However, Jiang Cheng did not feel the slightest sense of being used; he was doing this simply to help the physics field in China.

He did not care at all about what benefits Director Yan might gain from it; Jiang Cheng had never paid attention to political matters like these.

Moreover, what Jiang Cheng did today was merely done in passing, giving some simple advice without much effort on his part.

Just seeing the excitement of those physicists after finding direction made Jiang Cheng feel that his actions today were worthwhile.

These scholars, who devoted themselves purely to research, deserved his support.

This visit and guidance session proceeded in this harmonious atmosphere. Jiang Cheng toured the lab of the physics department at Tsinghua University, casually offering insights into the research work there.

After a while, Jiang Cheng and his group arrived at a huge room filled with several massive machines.

This laboratory occupied a massive area, far exceeding the size of other experiments.

Jiang Cheng glanced at the nameplate of this laboratory, which read "Dark Matter Laboratory of the Physics Department of Tsinghua University."

Director Yan noticed Jiang Cheng's interest in this laboratory, and immediately began to introduce it: "This is our university's dark matter laboratory, where all experiments related to dark matter are conducted." Jiang Cheng didn't need an introduction from Director Yan to understand what this place was for, as it was clearly written on the nameplate.

The dark matter laboratory, of course, researches dark matter—what else could it study?

Jiang Cheng walked into this lab filled with gigantic equipment, and others quickly followed him inside. 𝒇𝓻𝓮𝓮𝙬𝙚𝒃𝒏𝓸𝙫𝒆𝙡.𝓬𝓸𝒎

The laboratory was currently extremely busy, with many graduate and doctoral students engaged in experimental work.

Many people were focused on those huge pieces of equipment, recording various data displayed on them.

The reason for having so much large experimental equipment here is because researching dark matter requires these devices.

Researching dark matter is extremely difficult; humans can't directly study this substance but can only do so indirectly through some equipment.

This indirect research method made the manufacture of equipment difficult, and dark matter research equipment has never been miniaturized, which is why the equipment here looks so large.

Dark matter is no stranger to Jiang Cheng, as it is omnipresent in the universe.

Dark matter makes up 26% of the universe's mass, and can be considered a very important part of the universe.

But this material is extremely small, smaller than electrons and photons, making it very difficult for humans to observe directly, though its existence can be detected because it interferes with the light and gravity emitted by celestial bodies.

Humans still don't really understand what dark matter is and what form it exists in.

Dark matter was discovered by the scientific community a long time ago, yet humans have never managed to thoroughly research it.

Current research on dark matter is all speculative, and no cohesive theoretical framework has yet emerged.

Scientists have yet to find any good methods for researching this mysterious substance of dark matter.

Everyone can only use some very complex equipment to conduct indirect research on dark matter.

But such indirect research yields very little, and dark matter research remains essentially stagnant.

In the entire physics community, there are many physicists researching dark matter, as it's a relatively popular project in the physics field.

Virtually all capable universities have dedicated dark matter laboratories.

Every country with decent scientific research capacity has invested a lot of resources into the study of dark matter.

Many physicists regard dark matter as their main research direction, and the annual research expenses amount to astronomical figures.

Yet, all these massive investments have been in vain, showing no hope of success.

Despite years of research, dark matter remains as mysterious as ever, defying understanding of what it truly is.

Humans haven't figured out even the most basic structure and form of dark matter, let alone any more advanced properties.

The physics community's work on dark matter remains stagnant, producing mostly insignificant results.

Take this dark matter laboratory at Tsinghua University, for example. Although the researchers appear very active,

every one of them is fiddling with different pieces of equipment.

But those devices can only help them a little, and the results achieved are mostly unimportant, consisting mainly of indirect experimental data.

Those data couldn't help much, and the research is essentially random luck, hoping to stumble upon some findings.

Such research methodology is akin to searching for a needle in the ocean, with extremely low efficiency.

Jiang Cheng is actually quite interested in this dark matter business.

After seeing this dark matter laboratory, he became intrigued by the research on dark matter.

This is the cutting-edge issue in the physics field, and solving it would be very important to the development of physics as a whole.

Dark matter is a crucial component of the universe; failing to understand this could hold back human physics from progressing.

Physics is the study of the universe's basic structure and composition, and dark matter is a hurdle that cannot be bypassed.

If humanity could understand dark matter, it would enhance our understanding of the universe considerably.

Given the importance of dark matter to physics, Jiang Cheng decided he would take action to solve this problem.

The development of physics is vital to Jiang Cheng, as many of his plans rely on the progress of physics.

Physics is the precondition for many technologies.

Without sufficient support from physics, Jiang Cheng's space plans would just be castles in the air.

If humanity continues to struggle to figure out the structure of the universe, how could Jiang Cheng conquer outer space?

Since the issue of dark matter was impacting the progress of physics, Jiang Cheng didn't mind spending some time to solve this problem that stumped countless physicists.